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Do You Know Of A Vacant Lot In Smithfield that need Beautify ing? Enter it in the Yard and Garden Contest, Then Beautify! Smithfield wants a hotel —But it also W&nts to es tablish a Livestock Sta tion Yard. 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER SMITHFIELD, N. C., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1921 SIX PAGES TODAY NUMBER 42 Wreck Puts 2 In Local Hospital Uncovers Rumrunning and Officers Empty 54 Gallons ■ of Whiskey in Gutter Two persons are in the John ston County Hospital, a third ✓ is injured, and 54 gallons ot Ibooze were poured in the gutter as the result of an automobile collision which occurred Saturday niftit on highway 10 near Selma, about the spot where a straw berry truck collided with a vege table truck a week before. Howard L. Johnson, of McCuI lers, and John ‘Hughes, of Smith ,field, route, are the two men in the hospital, and J. E. Allen, of | Smithfield,- route 2, is the othe\ injured person. Johnson’s left arm was crushed, and other in juries sustained. Hughes suffere 11 abrasions and lacerations. Alien! was bruised and shaken up, but was not hurt seriously enough to I remain in the hospital. ' The accident happened at eleven ' o’clock Saturday night when the! Chrysler car driven by Johnson j and headed west collided with the j Chevrolet in which Hughes and j ^ Allen were riding, and which was j headed east. The Chrysler was | found to contain nine cases of j whiskey. Officers estimated that j there were 54 gallons of whiskey i packed in half-gallon fruit jars. | Chief J. H. Griffin of Selma, i was the first officer to reach the ! scene, but in a short time Depu- * ties E. A. Johnson and W. T. Davis arrived. The Chevrolet was * almost a complete wreck and the ( Chrysler was considerably dam- j aged. The cars were found about ( 200 feet apart. Howard L. John son told the officers that there •was a man in the car with him but his name was nito learned, due to the condition of the in jured man. s j MUSIC RECITAL PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE FRIDAY j A The music recital given Friday evening by the pupils of Mrs.\ Chester Alexander was enjoyed by j a large crowd. The stage was un- j usually attractive on this occas- ; ion. A. profusion of pink Dorothy j Perkins roses in vases, baskets, and standards against a back ground of pine formed a garden j scene and made a beautiful set ting for the youthful performers. The pupils acquitted themselves ■ well, showing that they had been weU trained. The program closed with the ohopus, “Garden of Roses,” by Ritter. COUNTY ESSAY CONTEST HERE NEXT SATURDAY iNext oaxuruay uie te»t in Johnston county conducted by -the North Carolina Cotton Association will terminate in the courthouse here, the exercises be ginning at 10:30 o’clock. Rvery high school pupil in the county is urged to enter the contest, ‘and J. A. Smith, field representative announces that every iboy and girl entering the county contest \yill be given a prize. Attractive prizes .have been arranged for the win ners and1 the school having the largest percentage of parents present will be given ten dollars. •It is hoped that the courthouse •will be filled on this big day. All parents are invited. *'* Answer This One. Small Boy: “Dad, what are the ho-les in the board for?” Dad: “Those are knot holes.” 'Small Boy after due con sideration): “Well, if they art not holes, whiat are they?” Tant&lizer ‘ 7 - .There »re exactly enough let ters in fclie line below to spell the name of a person in Smith 6qld or Johnston County, and to the one deciphering their ^ B$me and presenting a copy of this paper to the Herald ortlce, wtt will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the following issue. " Miss Annie Laurie Keen de ciphered her name. I ' TODAY’S TANTALIZER £ ca ertainrhe m in t k---; J. A. Smith Raises Hogs For Market Nine Duioc-Jersey Shoats Nets $62.23 Cash; Other Advantages in Hog Raising J. A. Smith, Johnston county field representative of the North Carolina Cotton Association, has lc'cently experimented with a few hogs on the side, and he makes a creditable report on the result. Re began with nine Duroc Jersey shoats which weighed a total of 612 pounds. At the end of 78 days he sold them in a carlot shipment on the Richmond mar ket. During this period the hogs gained from 612 pounds to I860, a total gain of 1238 pounds. They sold at $10.86 or $212.75 for the nine hogs. Figuring fishmeal at $15.04, Red Dog at $2.50, and 7l bushels ' of corn at $1.25 per bushel, or $88.75, a total cost fc $107.19, together with the initial value of pigs, freigh.t commission, etc., all amounting1 to $185.46, left a profit of $27.29. This does not take into account the fertilizer, or plant food value, which remains on the farm, this amounitng to $20.23. Deducting the cost of the tankage, $18.44, from $212.75 left $134.48, or ..a return of $1.63 per bushel for the corn. Figuring the cost of 'corn at 75 cents per busheC or $88.75, a total cost o? $62.23. More farmers are beginning t:» realize that, to take it on an av erage, corn sells better in pork than, as grain. On account of un favorable seasons and a poor crop last year, corn has sold well this yer, but usually there is very lit tk* demand for it on local markets, and it makes better returns when fed to hogs or chickens. Since carlot shipments have been made possible by J. B. Slack, tri-county agent, and others in the county who are interested in diversified farming, a profitable market has been found for these farm prod ucts. MR. OAKLEY CONDUCTS CHESTERFIELD CONTEST Mr. Oledith Oakley, representa tive of Liggett & Myers Tobacco company, who recently came to this city from Durham, has been conducting a cigarette-guessing contest at various local business firms during the past ten day?. A large glass jar has been filled with Chesterfield and prizes have been offered to the ones who came nearest to guessing the num ber In the jar. A guess goes with each package purchased. Six hundred Chesterfields will be giv en as first prize; 400 as sec ond prize; and 200 as third prize. The contest opened Saturday, May 11, with a display at the > store of Peedin and Peterson. On Monday, May 13, the display was moved to the Sundry Shoppe; on Saturday, May 18 at Hood Bros.j (yesterday at Creech’s; and today at the Smithfield Fruit Store. To ‘ morrow the guessing will be con jduteted at* the Smithfield Mer cantile Store, and oiv next Sat urday at the Home Cash Gro cery. | The contest will close next Sat Frank Wimbly Dies j Of Alcohol Poison ; Placed in Benson Jail Lat< Saturday Night in Drunk en State and Later Found i Dead; Two Inquests i ____ ' Frank Wimbly, a white mah of iyieadow township, was found dead in his cell in the Benson jail early Sunday morning, where he had been placed by officers a few hours previous, in a highly n ! toxicated state. The conclusion of the inquests held over the hotly was that he came to his death from alcohol poison.* Late Saturday night, Deputies Hann-Ifbal Godwin and L. D. Parker arrested Wimbly upon a charge of ' drunkenness. He was place ! in the Benson jail in quite a limp condition. Several hours later, of ficers visited the jail and found the man dead. The coroner, Dr. Packer of Benson, held an in quest and the decision was that' death was caused by poison al cohol. Later, a bruised place on the edad man’s head caused some in his community to question the cuse of his death, and yesterday a second inquest was held. Upon this occasion, Dr. Parker called in Dr. Duncan, a physician cf Benson, and the head of the dead man was operated on to deter mine if there were any fracture of the skull. There was no sign of fracture, and the second in quest concurred with that of the one held Sunday in determining the cause of death as alcoholic •poison. Wi'imbly was 45 years of age, and was unmarried. He was bur ied yesterday afternoon. MAGISTRATE’S COURT IS KEPT BUSY With the assistance of th^ county shferiff, A. J. Fetzgerald and his deputies, Mr. J. H. Kirk man, justice of the peace, has had ti busy time of late, trying meat ttealcrs, transporters and pur chasers of stolen goods. I Every night last week one or 4be other was tried, and out of the eight cases tried, six convic tions were found and two ao quitals. The two negroes who were acquitted were Luther Davis and John Shields. In these cases some of the -most prominent colored people of the town were implicat ed. Much of the meat and other stolen goods were identified by the owners. 'In addition to these cases, Lem uel Cox and wife were tried and convicted of false pretense and forgery having secured a suit of clothes from one of the blind in mates of the county home. ARRESTED AFTER WRECK, Upon charges of. driving a car under the influence of liquor and of possession, Albert Strickland of near Smithfield was arrested Saturday night by W. L. Sutter*, nightipolicernan, after he had run into another man’s car on Oak land Heights, He was placed in jail to await trial. In the wreck j which occurred on Oakland Heights, Strickland sustained a | cut on the back of his head which I was treated at the hospital be fore he was taken to jail. I I>eputy E. A. Johnson assisted 'in the arrest, and took the license I number on Strickland’s car. Com munication later with the li cense bureau in •%alfiigh revealed (the fact that it was a stolen li cense the theft of which had been I reported to Raleigh some, time j ago by Sam Henry Casey, of '•Goldsboro, route 4. This offense made the third charge for which |-Strickland will have to stand trial, / i Cheroikee fruit growers say that cold winds and frosts have caused most of the young apples to drop from the trees. The Sunday school superintend ent was greeted with a discon certing sihout of laughter. Why? Because he opened the church school with: Sing hymn number 184, ring Hemlock 3!—Ex. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Sasser and little daughter, Gean, spent the week end with relatives in New Bern. * - v. - • .* CHAS. H. GRADY MAKES BIG SPLASH IN HOLT LAKE On Wednesday of Ia$t week, Mr. Chas. H. Grady, an at torney of this city while fish ing for perch in Holt’s Lake had (he good fortune to hang a large chub. As Mr. Grady I was fishing with light tackle, i the chub wasted no time in j breaking his rod in several , places but failed to extricate himself from the hook. Mr. Grady succeeded in grasping the .line and after several minutes of fast work manag ed to tire the fish sufficiently to lead him up near the boat where he planned to lift him into the boat by hand. Just as Mr. Grady reached for his prize, the chub must have dc- . cided that it was “now or never” and made one last ' lunge for freedom. Mr. Grady "as evidently just as deter mined as the fish, and in his excitement, lunged in after him, hut to no avail. The fish i had sm>n departed for parts j unknown taking with him ] hook, line and sinker, and Mr. Grady was soon clawing much of the paint from the side of his boat in trying to regain its comfort. Mr. N. L. Per- ! Kins, a local insurance r."cst and tobacconist, who happen-* ed to be fishing nearby, states that the occurrence frighten- : ed him almost out of his wits as at the tfone there was a fleet lof aeroplanes passing | over and when Mr. Grady’s i 250 pounds hit the water he I was sure that one of the i pilots had Jost control of his plane and landed squarely in the middle of the lake, y To Load 14ili Car Poultry At Selma Since Jan. 1, 100,000 Pounds of Poultry Have Netted Johnston County Farmers $24,000 SELMA, 'May 20.—The four teenth poultry car of this season, will be loaded at ^he Southeri. Railway freight station in Selma next Saturday, May 25. Prices on colored hens have advanced from 27 cents per pound to 28 cent3 per pound, and prices on other poultry are the same as they were when the last car was loaded. Since January 1, 1929, 100,000 j pounds of poultry has been ship j ped from here which netted the j farmers of Johnston $24,000.00' | The local Kiwanis club, J. B. I Slack, county agent, and Miss Minnie Lee Garrison are largely i responsible for establishing suen a tremendous poultry market in this county. | Cash prices which will be paid ; for poultry next Saturday, May i 25, are as follows: colored hens, j 28 cents per pound; Leghorn hens, I 20 cents per pound; colored broil j ers, \Vz pounds and up, 35 cents | per pound; Leghorn broilers, lMs j pounds and up, 25 cents per j pound; Bareback broilers, 25 cents per pound; guineas, 35 cents each. ---- HILL FAVOllS ZEBULON WAKE FOREST ROAl) RALEIGH, May 20.—If Wake county completes the road it has started to build from Zebu Ion to Wake Forest, John Sprunt Hill, highway commissioner from this • listiict, will ask the commission to add it to the state system for maintenance, he stated last night. Following a controversy between advocates of a road from Spring Hope to' W<ake Forest and the Zebulpn-Wake Forest road, Mr, Hill put himself on <record as fav oring the Zebulon-Wake Forest route, and has recommended it for addition to the state system v.'hen it is completed. The road1 is 16.0 miles in length, and Wake county road forces have been working on It for some timg. At the request ot the county several years ago, the highway commission borrowed from the county over a million dollars for hardsurfacing roads in Wake county, and is repaying the county from state road funds accruing to the CQunty. Hence it will be some time be fore Wake county gets out of the red, or, in other words, be fore the county's allocation of state funds catches up with ex penditures by the commission in the county. With this in mind county com missioners started work on tho road, and it is understood will complete the route. W. L. Wiggs, county commissioner from the Zebu-Ion- district, announced at the highway hearing that he could only speak for himself, but if assurance were given that the rbad would be added to the state system, he saw no reason why the county should not complete work on it. t-. The State Highway Commission will meet again this month, on May 30,. to consider the addition of roads to the state system,- th’s Federal Prisoner Makes His Escape Climbs Down Cable of Eleva 1 tor During Entertainment in Court Room and Leaves Jail Behind During: the entertainment held ; in the court room last Friday j everting by the American Legion I and the U. D. C., one of the Fed- ! eral prisoners, a man by the name of Steele, who had been lodged j in jail here, made good his es cape, and uj) to the present there is no clue as to his whereabouts. The operators of the elevator had lowered the elevator to the floor on which the court room is located and were enjoying the concert. Steele, according to trusties in the jail corridors, , climbed down the cable of the elevator and crawled through an opening on the tbp of the eleva tor on the hall that leads to the , county welfare officer’s quarters. From there it was an easy mat iter to make his escape. Trusties in jail telephoned the | sheriff’s office after ringing the i elevator bell to no avail, but the ' deputies were attending a mag I istrate’s trial and did not hear j the telephone. i Steele,. who w^s reared near Durham, had lived on the farm I of H. H. Olive in Johnston coun I ty until about two years ago. Re cently he had been living in New Bern where he was tried and' eon i victed in federal couft and com ! nutted to jail. The sheriff telephoned nearby ! towns of the occurrence, but to date nothing has been heaVd of the escaped prisoners. l’hilalhea Class Entertained. Selma, 'May 20.—Miss Esther Hofmeister ^charmingly entertain ed the members of the Philathea class of the Edgerton Memorial Sunday school Tuesday evening at her home on Railroad street. Miss Elizabeth Whitaker presided over I the business session which was ! followed by a social hour. Miss Margaret Etheridge was the for tunate winner of a lovely hang | ing basket, {he prize given in a I unique “key” contest. Miss Le nora Tudor -assisted the hostess I in serving delicious refreshments. Those present were Misses Margaret .Etheridge, Ellen Talon, Lenora Tudor, Elizabeth Whitaker, Mildred Perkins, Mary Neal Clem ent, Mamie Fulghum, Roberta Spiers. SISTERS UNDERGO APPENDIX OPERATIONS Misses Mildred and Irene Ste phenson, daughters of Mr. an 1 Mrs. J. Lloyd Stephenson, of Pleasant Grove • township, were brought to the Johjiston County Hospital Saturday for operations for appendicitis. On Sunday their cousin, Miss. Virginia Stephenson, who lives near them, was brought • to the hospital for an appendix operation. All are reported to be getting along nicely. business being postponed at the meeting Thursday until the com mission could receive an opinion from the attorney-general in re gard to the distribution of mile age to. ibe added to the system during the next two years. F. P. Spruill Meets! With Co. Boards Member of Equalizing Board Explains Basis of County’s Participation in Fund; Levy Must Cover Cost of Six j Months School Friday afternoon, ?*!»'. F\ P. Spruill, of Rocky Mount, a mem ber of 4he State Equalizing B >a. J, met with the county board of ed ucation and with the county board of eommissiontrs at the courthouse here in regard to putting into practice the new school law. Mr. Spruill explained to these boards the basis on which Johnston coun ty will participate in the equal ization fund. " Mr. Spruill explained that in the evfent that the amount of the estimated May budget for current expenses in any county exceeds the amount that would be pro duced by a levy ^of 30 cents or the equalized valuation, which the new school law provides, the county commissioners must of necessity levy in addition to the 30 cent rate a rate sufficient to cover certain items? 1 uene items ureiuuc amvn^ turn ers the cost of transportation of pupils above $8.00 per pupil. As a matter of fact Johnston county will not require an extra levy for transportation, being one of the three counties that transports -pu pils below eight dollars per pupil. Also, after the county board jf education makes up the May bud get alloiwing teachers according to the number of pupils in the schools as provided in the new school law, at the state salary schedule the county ' commission ers must provide sufficient rev enue to meet the cost of the num ber of teachers so allowed. The state allows ten per cent of the salary budget for cur rent expenses such as salaries of special teachers above that pa d by the ystate. Supervisors, agri cultural teachers, home economics teachers and public school music teachers not included in the num ber allowed by the state, are in cluded among these special tea'ch ers, which if approved in a bud get must be taken care of in an additional levy, as well as aP supplements to teachers salaries. After ^ Spruill had told the boards how the amount each county would receive from the equalizing board for each county was arrived at, other business was transacted. The Cleveland school election ^wlas canvassed, and an election called in Princeton. Due to the death of the mother of Mr. J. T. Edgerton, chairman of the board of commissioners, Mr. Edgerton was not present, and Mr. J. T. Creech, of Selma, was acting chairman at this meeting. FUNERAL MR?. HARRIS HELD HERE FRIDAY » The funeral servcies for Mrs. Lillie Mae Harris who died in Atlanta of injuries she l'eceiyed in an automobile wreck, were con ducted at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon from the residence of her brother, Norman C. Shepard. Rev. Chester Alexander, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and Rev. J. D. Bundy, pastor of the Methodist church, conducted the services. A quartet sang the favorite songs of Mrs. Harris, “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and “Asleep in Jesus” at the residence and Abide With Me” at the grave. Members of the Johnston coun ty bar and county officials were honorary pallbearers and the ac tive pallbearers were, Paul Grady. Hunter Ellington, E. A. Orym.es, Robert Nutchill, Lindy Tremain, William Phillips, Lehman Barnes and George Y. Ragsdale. • MISS LASSITER TO GRADUATE AT MEREDITH. Friends here cf Miss Mattie i Lassiter have received the fol lowing invitation: , “The class of nineteen hundred j and twenty-nine, Meredith College, j requests the honor of your pres-1 once at the commencement ex ercises May twenty-fifth to twen ty-eighth, Rajeigh, North Caro- j Alumni Preisdent ; 1 ym : ."7 t/<W/V L. 0G.C.TO/V John L. Becton of Wilmington will preside at the annual alumrr meeting at North Carolina ‘State College, at Raleigh on Monday June 3. Mr. Becton is serving hi* second term as alumni president. Eleven Vacancies In County’s Quota Citizens Military Training Camp Offers Courses T< Young Men From 17 to 2 Years of Age Applications for enrollment in the Citizens’ Military Training i*amf> will be accepted until May 28. There are only eleven vacan cies left to be filled in Johnston county’s quota. The Citizens’ Mil itary Training camp offers foui courses and is open for young men from seventeen to twenty-one years of age. The Citizens* Military Training camps are conducted by the War Department under the National Defense Act, the Government pay ing the expenses of those attend ing, consisting of transportation to 'and from camps, uniforms, food and medical attention. The object is to bring together youry men of high type from all sec tions of the country on a comniot basis of equality and under the most favorable conditions of out door life. Application blanks may be ob tained from the Herald office oi from A. M. Noible, county chair man. HIGH SCHOOL BOY WINS TRIP OFFEREH GOLDSBORO, Route 1, May 20 —Old Rosewood High school is still on the map! In a contest put on by the Pic torial Review company this spring in the high schools of the state Mr. Elbert Grantham, a junior 01 Rosewood high school, won •« three-day free trip to Washing ton, D. C. Mr, Grantham was the only high school student ir North Carolina to win the trip. Days and weeks he knocked a; the doors of his friends in Wayp.c and Johnston county; and with his unfailing courage and his de termination to win, he at last se cured the seventy subscriptions tt the’ Pictorial -Review magazine which were necessary in order tc take the trip. I Mr. Grantham left Goldsboic for Washington Wednesday night April 24, and returned Saturdaj night, April27, spending two en tire days visiting the great capi tal city' and other points of in tere&t near there. Some of th< places he visited were: the librarj of Congress, Lincoln -Memorial Washington Monument, Pan-Amer ican Building, Capitol, Whit* House, Monument to Daughter of Revolution, Smithsonian Irasti tute, and other places of interesc He als-o visited Mount Vernoi and the Naval Academy at An napolis. The trip was indeed benefit i» as well as educational, and Mt Grantham wishes to thank every one who helped to make this tri| possible for him. He is indebte. very much to Mr. and Mrs. M D. Coperland, of Baltimore, Md who were his guides while ii Washington for helping to mak his trip a great success. Aged Woman Goes To Her Reward Mrs., Celia Edgerton Dies AC Age of 78; Mother of J. T. Edgerton, Chni'n County Board of Commissioners ! KEMilfY, May 20.—Mrs. Ce’ia ; Edgerton, mother of our towns I men, Mr. W. H. Edgerton and Mr. I J. T. Edgerton who is chairman 9f the county board of commis ! sioners, died Thursday afternoon iat her home near Princeton after an illness of several months. Mr?. ! Edgerton who’ .was seventy-eight I years of age was the widow o‘» j the late Joe Edgerton, who pre ceded her to the grave thirteen years ago. The funeral was hclj at the home Friday afternoon, the service ibeing conducted by Rev. W; G. Farrar, pastor of the Clin ton Methodist church, assisted by Rev. Mr. Milligan, pasto-r of the Na-hunta Friends church. Inter ment was made in the Nahur.u cemetery. The pallbearers were; Gilbert Holland, J. Stuckey, Ed ward Mitchell, Sam Hnllomar, John Henry Mitchell and Glar ence Edgerton. The deceased survived by six children as fol lows: J. T. and W. H. Edgerton. of Kenly; N. H. and J. A. Edg-. erton, of Rocky Mount; George Edgerton and Miss Martha Edgr erton, of near Princeton. Eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive. Airs. Kackley entertains. Mrs. W. H. Rackley entertained at a Sunday school party at her home on Maxwelton Heights las' Thursday evening, May 16. A flor« at love story "was enjoyed -end the prize, a corsage of sweet peas •was awarded to Miss Lois Culler. A very spirited automobile con test was aMso enjoyed, Mrs. A. J. Broughton being the winner in this, was- presented a prize, in the Sunday school contest, Miss Bessie Lawrence v?as winner. The hostess assisted by Miss Nelda Anderson, served strawberry ice cream and wafers. Those present were Miss Eleanor Hatcher, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. White, Miss Lola Culler, Mr. and M-rs. A. J7 Brough ton, Mr. Lester Watson^ Miss Ruth Jones, Miss Frances Wood house, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jonei, Miss Pattie Plummer Macon, Miss Bessie Lawrence, Mrs. J. T. Ni>> ion, Miss Emily Grantham, Mr.. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H, Mrs. J. A. Hodge, Miss Neldi Solon Cotton, Miss Inez Watson, > Rackley. In Automobile Accident. Rev, and Mrs. C. Logan, Lan drum left Tuesday morning i>£ motor for Kentucky to visit rei atives. They were accomanied by \ theiriJrother and wife, Mr. aid Mrs. Landrum, who have been at- l tending college in Richmond., Yft. * News has been received here of a serious automobile accident thfey; » were in on the trip. Rev. and Mrss;, Lanclrum were not injured but Mr. Landrum suffered a. broken lag and Mrs. Landrum a fractured shoulder.1 • . * • Mr. Etheridge BL The condition of! Mr. W. H. Etheridge, who was . paralyzed during the night Wednesday night is no better. Personal Mention. -Mr. and Mm. H. J. Simmons, were the guests of relatives la Norfolk Va., for the weak. end. iMr. and Mrs. F. A. White spent Sunday in Richmond, Va. Aunt Ropt Opine i' By Me— ^ uey uu wMi d* fouatry <4 ; dry twed| fanroahs ha< tec pal i dey seed cawn cuts in da creek ter make dey own ftprouk.”